You arrive at the check-in counter ready to finally start that vacation you’ve been planning for months. You put your bag on the scale expecting that it’s going to get a tag and be on its way to the cargo hold when suddenly the ticket agent starts shaking her head. Your bag is overweight and it’s going to cost you. As much as $200 on some airlines. Ouch! There goes one of your nights out. The best way yet devised to ensure this doesn’t happen is the luggage scale. They’re affordable, reliable and weigh almost nothing themselves and they’ll wind up saving you a lot of time and aggravation in the long run. Below are the best luggage scales on the market today.

The Best Luggage Scale

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Etekcity Digital Hanging Luggage Scale

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If your bag is too heavy you’ll be faced with either having to toss items or pay the odious overweight fee. The Etekcity Digital Luggage Weight Scale is light and extremely simple to use and will help you prevent either of those things from ever happening to you. Just power it up, slide the hook through one of the handles on your bag and lift. You’ll get an accurate weight that will let you know if you’re in accord with your airline’s weight restrictions or exactly how much you need to remove or redistribute to another bag.

The Etekcity luggage scale display is large and easy to read and shows you the weight in both pounds and kilograms. Spending just a few minutes with the Etekcity travel scale can save you money and hassle when you reach the airport. For all these reasons and more it’s our Best Choice. Be sure to also check out our list of the best luggage trackers for more great items like this.

Key Features:

Works on any bag up to 110 lbs (50 kg).

Large easy to read LCD display.

Built to withstand years of regular use.

Small enough to slip into your carry-on

Accurate to within 1/10 of a pound.

Specification:

BrandEtekcity

ModelPostal Luggage Scale

Weight2.08 ounces

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Samsonite Manual Luggage Scale

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This Samsonite travel scale has a decidedly old-school look and feel. It has something else in common with the best old-school tech too: it works. Using this luggage scale couldn’t be easier. You don’t even have to power it up and the batteries will never die on you because there aren’t any. While it’s not the most accurate scale ever invented (margin of error typically fluctuates between about 2 and 10 ounces) it’s accurate enough to let you know if your bag is overweight. And that’s all that really matters.

The other main selling points of this travel scale are that it’s lightweight, very affordable and small enough to slip into your carry-on without forcing you to leave other things behind. If you can get your brain to accept the analog display it will save you a lot of time, money and hassle.

Key Features:

Broad, comfortable handle makes weighing bags a breeze.

Can accommodate any bag up to 80 pounds.

Accurate to within less than a pound.

High build quality, extremely light and compact.

Specification:

BrandSamsonite

Model77778-1041

Weight7.2 ounces

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Tarriss Jetsetter Digital Luggage Scale

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If you like your tech to be as attractive as it is effective you’ll love this simple but elegant and highly accurate scale from Tarriss. The Jetsetter Digital Luggage Scale displays all the qualities that make high tech items so compelling. It’s small and light, beautifully designed and engineered, energy efficient and highly accurate (to .1 pounds). You can use it on any bag up to 110 pounds and when you’re done with it you can slip it into your carry-on or even your purse. The lithium-ion battery is long lasting and recharges in just minutes. And the backlight-free display and auto-off feature ensure you’ll get the most from each charge.

The Jetsetter is fashioned from high-quality stainless steel and the gentle arc of the design provides an easy, secure hold even when your bag is flirting with the upper ends of the weight limit. There’s a low battery indicator, a capacity overload indicator and the indicator locks on the proper weight as soon as the bag is stable. An easy choice for our Best Value.

Key Features:

Ultra-sleek design.

Measures with a high degree of precision.

Accommodates any bag up to 100 lbs or 50 kg.

Auto shut-off and backlight-free display save battery.

Weighs a scant 3.3 oz.

Specification:

BrandTarriss Travel Gear

Weight5.6 ounces

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EatSmart Precision Voyager Digital Luggage Scale

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We love the large, strong handle on the EatSmart Precision Voyager Digital Luggage Scale. We love the nice clear digital display and the 110 pound upper range. We love the no-nonsense reset mechanism for when you’re weighing more than one bag and we’re fond of the 20 second auto-off feature as well because we hate dead batteries.

Despite its virtues the Voyager Luggage Scale is not a perfect beast. We don’t quite understand why the strap has to be so complicated with the snapping clip and all that. And the handle has one fairly obvious drawback: if your bag is heavy your hands are going to come together and obscure the display. You may even inadvertently hit the on/off switch. That said, there’s more upside than downside to the Voyager and we would have no hesitation bringing it with us on our next trip. It’s simple, won’t take up a lot of space and will provide highly accurate readings even on the heaviest bags. Our handy guide to the best Victorinox luggage sets features more great products like this.

Key Features:

Robust handle makes lifting your heavy bags easier.

Large clear digital display.

Scale beeps to indicate accurate reading.

Reset with convenient on/off button.

20 second auto-off to conserve battery.

Specification:

BrandEatSmart

ModelESLS-01

Weight5.6 ounces

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Accuoz Digital Luggage Scale w/LCD Backlight

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The Accuoz Digital Luggage Scale gets so many things right it was hard not to make it our Best Choice and we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see it top other “best of” luggage scale lists. It’s handsome and heavy duty at the same time. It’s super easy to use, accurate to less than an ounce even on heavy bags, is extremely lightweight due to the ABS plastic construction and the nylon attachment strap for your luggage is delightfully simple and straightforward.

When the Accuoz determines the bag is stable it locks in the weight so there’s no mistakes. It displays that weight on a clear, easy to read LCD screen (which also displays the environmental temp) and the weight can be easily converted from pounds to kilograms and back again. Our only quibble with the Accuoz is a minor one: the ABS plastic that makes this luggage weight scale so light also invests it with an unsubstantial feel some may find less than appealing.

Key Features:

Weigh any bag up to 110 pounds.

Backlit LCD display can be read even in the lowest light.

Highly accurate to within less than an ounce.

Auto weight lock and auto-off.

Specification:

BrandAccuoz

ModelAS300

Weight3.04 ounces

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4UMOR Portable Digital Hanging High Precision Luggage Scale

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Whereas many portable suitcase scales today adopt fairly interchangeable looks the 4UMOR Portable Luggage Scale sports a tastefully unique design ethos without compromising functionality to do so. The 4UMOR luggage scale has a nice wide handle so you can get a firm grip, provides an easy to read backlit LCD display, shuts down automatically after 60 seconds to preserve the battery and is accurate to within an ounce. It will also allow you to see your weight in either pounds, kilos, ounces or grams should you need to.

Once the scale determines the bag being weighed is stable it locks in the weight so that there’s no mistake. This allows you to make any adjustments to your load with a high degree of confidence. Which is what you’d expect from any of the best luggage scales. You’ll never have to pay another overweight fee or leave things in the trash bin at the check-in when you have the 4UMOR with you.

Key Features:

Remarkably light at only 80 grams.

Measures bags up to 110 pounds with high degree of accuracy.

Handsome design with clear LCD display.

Overload and low battery warnings.

One year money-back satisfaction guarantee.

Specification:

Brand4UMOR

Weight3.2 ounces

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Samsonite Electronic Luggage Scale

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The Samsonite Electronic Luggage Scale is a design outlier in that it sports a conical shape and employs a simple stainless steel hook to hold your bag. Some will find the ergonomics of this scale to be less than ideal, and they’ll have a point. But, from a practical perspective, this travel scale does what it’s supposed to do and does so reliably time after time. Your weight is displayed clearly on the LCD screen and you can switch between pounds and kilos depending on where you are.

There’s nothing groundbreaking here. It’s not going to forecast the weather or pick stocks for you. Nor is it leading the way into a new world of conical design for high tech devices. What it will do is slip easily into your carry-on and provide you the ability to ensure you don’t ever again get stuck forking over hard-earned cash for having an overweight bag. Be sure to combine this with a cool luggage set from our list.

Key Features:

Reliable and affordable luggage scale from a quality brand.

Weigh any bag up to 80 pounds with high degree of accuracy.

Simple hook mechanism for attaching bag.

Includes built in tape measure to ensure you’re bags conform to size regulations.

Specification:

BrandSamsonite

Model61338-1041

Weight7 ounces

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Smileto 110lb/50kg Portable Electronic Scale

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The Smileto Portable Electronic Scale isn’t going to win any design awards. But if what you want is a scale that will weigh even your heaviest bags with a high degree of precision the Smileto will do that reliably time and again. This luggage scale features weight-lock once it detects a stable load, has a large easy to read LCD display for both pounds and kilos, uses a no-nonsense stainless steel hook to hold your bag and has an auto-off feature that will preserve battery life.

It’s not the easiest luggage weight scale to hold the first time out. But with a bit of practice you should be good to go. Like a lot of other electronic scales the Smileto provides you with the ambient temperature. But unlike many other suitcase scales you can adjust the handle to accommodate your particular anatomy. The LCD screen is backlit and easy to ready and the whole thing is wonderfully compact and will slip away discreetly into your carry-on.

Key Features:

Accurate to within 2 oz.

Will accommodate any bag up to 110 pounds (50 kg).

Locks weight in once load stabilizes.

Device weighs only 11 ounces.

Uses rechargeable AA batteries.

Specification:

BrandSmileto

ModelHY00111

Weight5.6 ounces

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Zeerkeer TSA Electronic Luggage Scale

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Part security device, part luggage scale the Zeerkeer Electronic Scale boasts a TSA-approved design that will allow you to add an extra level of security to your bag while at the same time giving you a way to always know the current weight. Your bag will never again suffer an embarrassing and inconvenient accidental opening, nor will you have to worry that someone might break into your bag if you have to leave it for a moment to pay for something or if you doze off while waiting for your flight.

In this age of heightened awareness about the risks associated with travel security straps are an idea whose time has come. They allow you to rest that much easier knowing no one is going to be able to just pop open your bag when you’re not looking or when you fall asleep at the airport during a long stopover. The built-in scale is easy to use and read and enables you to stay on top of how much you’re carrying and how much leeway you have for souvenirs and the like. The Zeerkeer is well-built, practical, lightweight and durable and is one of the best luggage scales around. Because of its practical versatility it snags our Premium Choice designation.